Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence: Methods for Research and Fieldwork

Arild Angelsen · Helle Overgaard Larsen · Carsten Smith Olsen

Nov. 2012 · Routledge

E-boek

240

Bladsye

Geskik

Graderings en resensies word nie geverifieer nie. Kom meer te wete

Meer oor hierdie e-boek

Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural realities. In particular, 'the hidden harvest' from natural resources is generally too important to livelihoods for development research, policies and practice to ignore. Fieldwork using state-of-the-art methods, and in particular well-designed household questionnaires, thus becomes an imperative to adequately capture key dimensions of rural welfare.

This book describes how to do a better job when designing and implementing household and village surveys for quantitative assessment of rural livelihoods in developing countries. It covers the entire research process from planning to sharing research results. It draws on the experiences from a large global-comparative project, the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), to develop more robust and validated methods, enriched by numerous practical examples from the field. The book will provide an invaluable guide to methods and a practical handbook for students and professionals.

Meer oor die skrywer

Arild Angelsen is a Professor of Economics & Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and a Senior Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. He is coordinator of the Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) and has broad experience from research in design and management and fieldwork in Indonesia and Eastern Africa.

Helle Overgaard Larsen is an Associate Professor at Forest & Landscape Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. She has experience with design and implementation of social-ecological research, including household surveys, fieldwork in Nepal and Tanzania. She is currently teaching research planning.

Jens Friis Lund is an Associate Professor at Forest & Landscape Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is a resource person of PEN and has done research on rural livelihoods in Tanzania, Ghana and Nepal.

Carsten Smith-Hall is a Professor at Forest & Landscape Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He has directed several international collaborative research and educational programmes and published results in both natural and social science journals.

Sven Wunder is Principal Economist with the Center for International Forestry Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he has worked for the last 10 years. He is author of numerous books, articles and chapters on payments for environmental services, tropical deforestation, and is a co-founder of PEN.

Gradeer hierdie e-boek

Sê vir ons wat jy dink.

Lees inligting

Slimfone en tablette

Installeer die Google Play Boeke-app vir Android en iPad/iPhone. Dit sinkroniseer outomaties met jou rekening en maak dit vir jou moontlik om aanlyn of vanlyn te lees waar jy ook al is.

Skootrekenaars en rekenaars

Jy kan jou rekenaar se webblaaier gebruik om na oudioboeke wat jy op Google Play gekoop het, te luister.

E-lesers en ander toestelle

Om op e-inktoestelle soos Kobo-e-lesers te lees, moet jy ’n lêer aflaai en dit na jou toestel toe oordra. Volg die gedetailleerde hulpsentrumaanwysings om die lêers na ondersteunde e-lesers toe oor te dra.

Gee onwettige inhoud aan